Niki POV
I skipped out of my house and into the street. I was going to meet my friends at the village fountain and we were going to
camp out in the forest except we told all our parents that we were having a sleepover at a friends house then going to the city for 5 days.
We were gonna be gone for 6 days. I am 13 and have long straight auburn layered hair and moss colored eyes. I have pale skin and a slender
body. My real name is Nicole but I keep it short.
My friends that are coming are Kyla, Jenny (short for Jenifer), and Brooke. Then all of my other friends that are boys Dylan, Colin, Joey, and Johnny.
Kyla is 12 and Jenny is 12 and my best friend Brooke is 13 like me. Kyla has short brown hair, brown eyes and a slim body. Jenny has blond
shoulder length curls and aqua colored eyes and a regular body. Brooke has flaming red straight long hair, brown eyes and also a pretty
skinny body.
Kyla is turning 13 in 11 days and Jenny is turning 13 in 18 days.
Dylan has blond short hair, lanky body and olive green eyes, he is 13. Colin has sandy hair that has a little length to it, he has a well built body and brown
eyes he is 14. Joey has black hair that is longish, with grey eyes, and medium muscles he is 13. Johnny has dirty blond hair that curves at the ends as if he wore
hats so much that it is now permantly curved, he has a wirey body and paleish skin his age is 14.
Johnny just turned 14, 3 weeks ago and Colin turned 14, 2 months ago.
All in all there were 8 of us. I was the second to last one to the fountain. We all had bags with sleeping bags and an ice chest filled with food and
snacks, that were already cooked or they were cold cut like sandwiches. We also got a bunch or drinks. We brought dozens of glowsticks and
flashlights with extra batteries. We had everything from tents to bugspray. We even packed our bathing suits. Of course we also brought a big fat first aid kit.
We sat on the ridge of the fountain talking about the plans.
"I think we should take the road that leads out of the village and keep on walking until we find a dence part in the forest. Then we branch off and
find a clearing were we set camp." Joey said
"No way I say we go west into the forest and mark the tree's with our knifes then we find a clearing and camp there." Kyla said
"No I think we should hitchhike on a big truck or something and." Jenny paused "Never mind it's a stupid idea."
That's why Kyla, Brooke and I call Jenny the Blonde Bimbo. She never think's before she speaks.
"I think we should do what Kyla said except we head east about 3 miles, there is a lake there and we can camp there." I said
Everbody agreed. Even my crush Johnny.
We picked up our stuff and headed out of the village to the east. We took a longer route because we did not want to risk being seen by people we know.
"How long is it going to take?" Jenny asked
"About 3 and a half hours." Dylan replied
We soon got to the forest and I brought out my knife and every 10 tree's I slashed a mark into it.
"How big is the lake?" Kyla asked
"Medium sized and it is both shallow and deep." I replied
"Are we going to have a campfire?" Jenny asked
"Yes." the boy's replied
"Jenny are you going to shut up with the 20 questions?" I asked
"Maybe." she replied while stifleing a giggle
"Ok have you herd that at school Megen kissed 2 boys on the scoccer team and she even cheated on her exam from that kid, what's his name? Marco,
and the teacher knew it but did not bust her." Brooke said
"What type of kiss?" Colin asked
"A big french kiss, it was like she was digging for gold in his mouth." Brooke said
"She has got issues." Jenny said
"Bimbo." Brooke, Kyla and I said together
"She has a little something more then issues." Kyla said
"No doubt." I said
"Well I bet you have not herd this juicy piece of gossip." Jenny said
"Lay it on me Jenny." Kyla said
"Ok so yo know the north wall of the campus?" she said
"Yes." We all said in usion, even the boys
"Well you know it is said that it fell because of the earthquake." she said
"Yes....??" we all said anxious to hear more
"I saw Riely, Karly, Erin and Kelly go and hack away at the tree at night and next morning it fell on the wall, the teacher's blame it on the earthquake
a couple weeks ago but they know what really happened that's why they don't let anybody go to the outer building's. If anybody went there they would
know exactly what happened, I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened if you took a peep." she said
"Finally a good peice of gossip from Jenny. How long has it been?" she said
We all started laughing.
I checked my whatch.
"11:52 am. We have been walking for 2 hours" I announced
"1 and a half hour until we are there." Kyla said
The lasy hour and a half was short because we started talking about more intersting things that have been happening.
We set out thing's on the ground.
"We are here." Colin announced
We were in a big clearing that had lots of grass and flowers. There was a big patch of dirt that we would use as our firepit.
"Ok us guys will put up our tent while you girls try to put up your's." They said
"What does the girl's tent look like?" Kyla asked
"Same as the guy's." Dylan said
"Ok lets put them acros from each other, about 7 feet of space between them." I said
"Good idea now let's get to work." Johnny said
We took out the tent from the bag and started working. We knew we had to beat the guys.
After 45 minutes we were done and they were still working.
"Done." we said together
They turned thier heads towards the tent, then they huddeld up.
"You have to do the inside too." they said
"No problem." Brooke said and we got to work.
I took out my sleeping bag and placed it in the middle. All the other girls put theirs beside mine. Then we got our pillows out.
"So what do you think thier tent will look like in the end of the trip?" Brooke asked
"Like a pig stye. Their clothes are going to make the tallest mountains in history and cans of soda will be littered around thier tent." I said
"True." they said
Just before we put down the last pillow they finished.
"Done!" they yelled
We got out of our tent and looked at the outside of thier tent.
"Pretty good." Kyla said
"Wait we have to see the inside." I said
We unzipped thier tent and peered inside.
They looked at us with grins.
Thier sleeping bags were pulled out and strewn all around the tent and thier pillows were lost under it all.
"You guy's didn't even try." we said
"Yeah we did, they can't be next to each other or else it would be gay." Colin said
"Well anyways let's set up the campfire and change into our bathing suits." Jenny said
"And swim trunks." Joey said
"Yeah yeah what ever. Scince you guys win you get to got find wood and set it up." I said
"No scince we win you girls have to find firewood and set up the campfire while we change." the guy's said while smirking
"Fine." Brooke said
The boys high fived and we left thier tent.
"Ok here is the deal we go in pairs and we stay in the clearing. Everybody got that?"I said
They nodded.
"I will go with Brooke. Kyla you go with Jenny."
Brooke and I headed away from the tents and we started gathering wood.
"At least we don't have to start the fire." Brooke said
"Yeah." I grubmled
We soon got back to the fire area and Kyla and Jenny were waiting for us with a big pile of wood.
I knelt down.
"Brooke go with Jenny and get a bunch of fist sized rocks." I said in a captin's voise
"Yes sir." they said and salooted
They came back soon with a bunch or rocks and I set them in a big circle. Then we set the pieces of wood like a tee-pee.
"Done." we exclaimed and turned around with broad grins
We went back into our tent and changed into bikini's. We gabbed our towels and went outside to meet the boys.
"Let's go." Jenny said while picking up a rock and chucking it at the nearest tree
We all headed to the lake. It was 2:00 pm.
"Bomb's away!" Joey yelled and jumped into the lake.
We all jumped in.
I looked around. I saw Jenny, Brooke and Kyla having a splash fight and saw Colin, Johnny and Joey tackeling each other in the water. Were was Dylan?
As if answeing my question two hands grabbed my ancklesand pulled me underwater. I screamed.
I came up to the surface and so did Dylan laughing. I splashed him and swam towards my friends and joined in the splash fight. Joey came over to Jenny
and picked her up and threw her upinto the air and she came down in a splash.
She came up laughing.
"Ok it's going to get dark soon lets go back and change and start the campfire then we can tell scary stories." I said
They all agreed. We walked back to camp and changed and hung our bathing siuts on trees. The boys started the fire and I pulled out the marshmellows
and the sticks.
I stuck a mrshmellow on my stick and started roasting it.
"I have a scary story." Johnny said while sticking a marshmellow into the fire
"There once was a man called John. He was a a hiking instructor and went out with poeple to go hiking. One day he was assighned to do a night hike
in the mountains. He and a group of 4 women and 6 men started the hike into the wilderness. They started hiking a mile away from the base of the montain.
The men and women were chatting excitedly while John was worring." Johnny paused
"The men and women started hearing voises. They first started as whispers then grew louder. Then there was a buch of rustling in the leaves of the trees and
while everybodys attention was on that the last person in the line screamed. They looked back but he was gone. They kept on hiking, all of them were terrified.
Soon every few minutes each person was picked off and further up the trail thier bodies would be found with arms or legs, even heads that were gone." He stared
at each of us as if daring us to listen further.
"Soon there was olny John and a woman named Olivia who were left. They kept on hiking then they came up to a trench. There was no way to pass. They had to
go back." he stopped to pick his marshmellow off his stick and shove it into his mouth
We were all staring at him.
"Then these things started climbing up the trench. The scraping sounds were all John and Olivia could hear. Then it went silent. Mutants came up and started eating
John and Olivia. The end." he said calmly
By the end of his story I finished roasting 2 marshmellows because the others caught on fire. I got up and threw my last burnt mashmellow into the fire and stalked
off into the night. When I reached our tent I went in and changed and got into bed while the others stayed to listen to another story that was being told by Jenny.